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Progress Housing Group has donated 70 personal computers (PCs) to a local school after updating the staff computers at its Leyland Head Office.
The beneficiary of the donation is the Moor Hey School in Lostock Hall. Moor Hey is a mixed school open to children from the age of 4-16 who have special needs.
Moor Hey School has recently taken ownership of the 70 PCs and laptops. As well as being used for students they will enable Moor Hey to do more for the local community by offering computer courses.
Some of the computers are to be made available for students on computer courses to take home for the duration of their course. They will be able to practice what they are taught in class before returning the units to be wiped and rebuilt for the next class.
Moor Hey School’s ICT Co-ordinator, Clive Tallon, said: “The donation from Progress Housing Group is absolutely wonderful and has been very gratefully received.
“We have just recently refurbished a classroom and we are in the process of making it into an IT suite. We are going to put the best 20 computers into the suite which will complete the project perfectly.
“15 of the computers are to go to Lostock Hall High School where they will be installed with full internet access for students while six computers will go to the University of Central Lancashire for students learning word processing.
“The remaining computers, as well as the donated laptops, will go to college students on technician courses. The students will dismantle these computers and learn how to put them back
together as part of their course.”
